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librato_annotation - create an annotation in librato

New in version 1.6.

Synopsis

  • Create an annotation event on the given annotation stream :name. If the annotation stream does not exist, it will be created automatically

Parameters

Parameter
Choices/Defaults
Comments
api_key
required
Librato account api key
description
The description contains extra meta-data about a particular annotation
The description should contain specifics on the individual annotation e.g. Deployed 9b562b2 shipped new feature foo!
end_time
The unix timestamp indicating the time at which the event referenced by this annotation ended
For events that have a duration, this is a useful way to annotate the duration of the event
links
required
See examples
name
The annotation stream name
If the annotation stream does not exist, it will be created automatically
source
A string which describes the originating source of an annotation when that annotation is tracked across multiple members of a population
start_time
The unix timestamp indicating the time at which the event referenced by this annotation started
title
required
The title of an annotation is a string and may contain spaces
The title should be a short, high-level summary of the annotation e.g. v45 Deployment
user
required
Librato account username

Examples

# Create a simple annotation event with a source
- librato_annotation:
    user: user@example.com
    api_key: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
    title: App Config Change
    source: foo.bar
    description: This is a detailed description of the config change

# Create an annotation that includes a link
- librato_annotation:
    user: user@example.com
    api_key: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
    name: code.deploy
    title: app code deploy
    description: this is a detailed description of a deployment
    links:
      - rel: example
        href: http://www.example.com/deploy

# Create an annotation with a start_time and end_time
- librato_annotation:
    user: user@example.com
    api_key: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
    name: maintenance
    title: Maintenance window
    description: This is a detailed description of maintenance
    start_time: 1395940006
    end_time: 1395954406

Status

This module is flagged as preview which means that it is not guaranteed to have a backwards compatible interface.

Author

  • Seth Edwards (@sedward)

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